The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has opened several criminal proceedings regarding possible abuses during the construction of fortifications in the Donetsk region. The customer of the works was the Poltava Regional Military Administration during the leadership of Philip Pronin.
As NABU head Semen Kryvonos reported on Radio Liberty on November 19, detectives are currently identifying a group of individuals involved in possible violations, including the former head of the OVA. Pronin currently serves as head of the State Financial Monitoring Service.
Kryvonos noted that the investigation of the case required the assistance of the State Financial Monitoring Service, which should have facilitated the investigation from the moment the records were published, but this did not happen. According to the head of the NABU, Pronin's structure is a kind of "financial intelligence" that should track suspicious transactions and the movement of funds, but "virtually no relevant information" was provided to the bureau's requests.
In September, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of parliament from the Holos faction, said that about UAH 200 million could have been stolen during the construction of fortifications in the Donetsk region. According to him, the work was imitated and the materials used were of low quality, which allegedly led to the loss of positions by the Ukrainian military.
Philip Pronin, summoned to parliament for explanations, rejected all accusations and called the information about the embezzlement unreliable.
